2021 D coordinator [Muschamp]

[Smokey X]

I'd be fine with it. You could get a solid DC on the cheap. And as others have said MAYBE Pruitt will trust him enough to be the DC so JP can focus on other areas.

agree....read thru his defensive coaching career, it would be hard to find someone better to lead the defense...

Will Muschamp - Wikipedia

 

[DonDiego]

Not an advocate for Lane Kiffin ever. I do recognize that he is an offensive guru but I am not one of the people asking for him to come back to Tennessee. I blame him for the mess we are in. He single handily destroyed the University of Tennessee by leaving the way he did.

Wouldn't it be cool if the guy who 'single handily (sic) destroyed it' could single handedly restore it?

 

[Lane Train 4]

Wouldn't it be cool if the guy who 'single handily (sic) destroyed it' could single handily restore it?

No, he could not do that even if he were given the opportunity. He is not an elite head coach!

 

[cgrish]

Absolutely, maybe that is why he makes mistakes in game situations like not going for fg when it would put us within one score. He had his mind on things he should let his cord. take care of and him thinking of the game as a hc

 

[cgrish]

Wouldn't it be cool if the guy who 'single handily (sic) destroyed it' could single handedly restore it?

Actually the one who hired him did this, by not having a better contract with a huge buyout if he left before contract was up.

 

[lilesrt]

What's not to like?

I can’t stop laughing.

 

[EZE]

When you find yourself in a hole, STOP DIGGIN!

No shat! What makes anyone believe that Muschump would be a good DC? Or that he would miraculously make Pruitt a competent HC?

 

[lilesrt]

We need to make cheap hires with the expectation that 2021 will be Pruitt’s last season. 1 year contracts- Cheapest fill-ins we can get. If we’re going 6-6 we might as well not overpay for it.

 

[knoxvol16]

Will Muschamp a candidate to join Vols' staff after parting ways with South Carolina

This didn't work out well at all for Auburn . . . in case anyone has forgotten about that.

 

[JonGrudensAgent]

I mean...yeah...why wouldn't you want the guy whose defense has given up 159 points in 3 weeks running things on that side of the ball?

 

[cgrish]

I think Pruitt wants a Yes-Man as DC. So Muschamp wouldn’t fit that mold.

I think you are right on this. If not a yes man he doesn't want them.

 

[lilesrt]

agree....read thru his defensive coaching career, it would be hard to find someone better to lead the defense...

Will Muschamp - Wikipedia

It would be even harder to convince Derrick Ansley. Will Muschamp’s ego will not allow him to enter into a “co-defensive coordinator” role. No way.

 

[cgrish]

Without drastic improvements mainly at qb, we won't go 6-6 next year. I noticed Vandy gave Ky a much better game than we did, we may not win another game if we don't get a qb in the game who is a passing threat, because everyone is going to stack the los to stop the run with jg.

 

[VolArmy74]

So the coach who just got fired because his team gave up 700 yards to Ole Miss and has given up 159 points in it's last three games would come here to coach defense? Makes perfect Tennessense.

 

[chef3531]

So you really think Pruitt could work with him?

If not he could do what a lot of people would love to do, punch CJP in the face lol

 

[MADISONGAVOL]

Ggaaaaawwwwddddd help us

Guys a dang good defensive coordinator

 

[tnvols72]

I rather see the thread that Pruitt has been fired instead of a fired HC being hired as a DC.

 

[Woodlawn VOL]

Muschamp is not a very good head coach. But he is a proven DC, his defenses have been good everywhere he has been coordinator. GBO!

 

[DonDiego]

Guys a dang good defensive coordinator

Right! He's an incredible DC. Like CJP, he's in a little deep as a HC, but as a DC, he's excellent. Hey look haters, once CJP is fired, we can retain him on the cheap, thanks to USC. Maybe our next 2 year victim will want to keep him as DC and help us out with the JP buyout..

 

[Volfan574]

Make Muschamp sing rocky top and then he is welcome.

 

[VolForLife83]

So you really think Pruitt could work with him?

Just imagine all the fighting, board kicking, facemask grabbing, and ugly faced gifs lol

 

[VolFreakJosh]

Pruitt and Muschamp are too much alike.

Both are terrible HCs.

 

[tnvols72]

Pruitt and Muschamp are too much alike.

Both are terrible HCs.

That is why its makes too much sense that Muschamp will be hired. The UT way

 

[FirstAndGoal]

Will Muschamp a candidate to join Vols' staff after parting ways with South Carolina

A candidate to join WHAT staff? Hell, we are trying to get rid of Pruitt. Let the next UT coach make his own decisions. Hire Kiffin already.

 

[VolArmy74]

Right! He's an incredible DC. Like CJP, he's in a little deep as a HC, but as a DC, he's excellent. Hey look haters, once CJP is fired, we can retain him on the cheap, thanks to USC. Maybe our next 2 year victim will want to keep him as DC and help us out with the JP buyout..

His last season as a DC in 2015 Auburn finished in the bottom 4 in the SEC in yards allowed, points allowed, sacks and forced turnovers, and 76th nationally in total defense, once he left it finished 6th the next year. Before that his last season as a DC was at Texas in 2010, Texas finished 50th nationally in total defense. His last top 10 finish as a DC was in 2007.

At South Carolina his defense is ranked 104th currently and was ranked 53rd or lower 3 of the last 4 seasons. It's been well below Tennessee's defense the last two years.

Any defensive prowess he had seems to have passed him by and was a part of the old era of football vs the new, wide open, offense wins era we are currently seeing.